Three Songs from Blake's "America" (1987)

The texts for these three songs are excerpted from William Blake's poem of 1793, America: a Prophesy. This epic work is a commentary on the American Revolution – although not in any literal or conventional sense. Here, Blake creates a visionary world in which allegorical forces representing liberty and tyranny battle for supremacy in the New World. This performance was recorded live at the Wolf Performance Hall, in London, Ontario, on December 10, 2006.